The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

the cornerstone of the capitol.
"A junk man at Bushnell found two
boys playing with a cast-iron globe
about the size of base ball. 1t proved
to be an unexploded canister bomb.
"A skeleton of human being which
was recently placed in the hallway of
medical college at Los Angeles, Cal,
to scare burglars away has been
stolen.
"A negro at the Boyce Oa.) tele-
graph Office the other day sent the fol-
lowing dispatch to an absent friend:
Come home your wifes dyin' fast as
she can"
"A giantess, who, though only
twelve years and five months old,
stands eight feet high, and weighs two
hundred and seventy pounds, is on ex-
hibition in Japan.
"A Texas newspaper claims to have
received in payment of a subscription
''the oldest hen on record The ed
itor says she was imported from Mex
leo by the local physician eight or nine
years ago.
Two ladies, Miss Belle Burrows
and Virginia Springer, each carried
out a keg of powder from a burning
store during a recent fire at New Mar
tinsville, w. Va. The kegs were hot
and they put wet rags on them to cool
them.
Steps are being taken in Florida to
organize a shippers union to control
and regulate the sale and shipment of
oranges, lemons, and other fruits to
Northern markets. The commission
men will be dispensed with and agents
of the union viii take their place.
Good results are expected.
In a recently published history of
Connecticut appears a description of a
grand wedding in the later colonial
days. The historian says: ''On the
day after the marriage min ety-two
ladies and gentlemen proceeded to
dance ninety-two jigs, ffty-two contra
dances, forty-five minuets, and seven
teen hornpipes.
We are growing old very fast,
Horatio my son. Time is winging us
away to our eternal home at great
rate. We have scarcely recovered
from the effects of our Fourth of July
celebration before we have to make
preparations to contract our Christmas
headache. This is a mad, mad world.
Lincoln journal.
"A farmer of Mecklenburg County.
n. c., owns tame crow which goes
regularly to the cotton field and picks
as much in a day as any of the human
pickers. With its beak it twists the
cotton out and puts it in bag. The
owner of this truly rare bird, as well as
the neighbors, declare that the state
ment is true in all respects.
"A negro in Americus, Ga, bought
a trunk at store for one dollar and
half. An hour afterward he returned
and said he guessed he'd got too much
for his money. The trunk was filed
with the stOrekeeper's stock of Mack.
inaw straw hats that had been packed
away in it for the winter. They were
worth from seVenty-fVe to one hundred
dollars.
"A professor claims to have discov-
cred that a grain of alum in a gallon OF
water will reduce the colonies CT bacte-
ria-if the water is sufficiently infested
from eight thousand one hundred to
about eighty, and that the remaining
bacteria will be the large ones and can
be easily taken out by fltering. The
required amount of alum, be says, is
too small to be detected by taste and is
not harmful to health.
Mrs. Jennie Webster, of 1909
Chestnut street. St. Louis, found a
man under her bed one evening re-
Gently. In the absence of her husband
she was perusing some old love letters,
the package fell to the floor. and in re-
covering it she discovered the in
truder's feet. She quietly left the
room, summoned an officer. and the
would-be burglar was captured. Mrs.
Webster then swooned in the most ap-
proved fashion.
Engineer William Dart, of the
steam tug y. Dart at Brunswick, Ga,
reports seeing a rattlesnAke the other
day coming in from sea. The
steamer was near the lighthouse when
his snakeship was discovered coming
in with the tide, head erect, but with
rattles trailing in the water. The rat
tlesnake usually swims with both head
and tail erect, the latter waving from
side to side, like that of dog. This
one must have been swimming a long
time, and was no doubt exhausted,
hence allowed the ratties to trail in the
water
The experiments made by M. Moh-
lenbruCk seem to show that in the
mesmeric condition an electric current
may have a powerful inductive action
upon the human nerves. In the first
experiment a watch Was placed near
the microphone and the ring placed
upon the head of the mesmerized sub
iect, who Immediately began to beat
time with the ticking Of the watch;
when the microphone contact was
touched with a quill feather he placed
his fingers in his ears, aud on the mi
crophone being removed to a distant
apartment and the connection of the
circuit completed, as before, violin
was played in the distant room, the pa
tient showing the most distinct indica-
tions that he heard the mUsic.
At Washington one night last week
a lady retired to rest with a heavy feel
ing in the region of her heart After
sleeping an hour or two she was sud-
denly awakened by the sound of heart
beating like \ hammer striking some
metallic substance, while the pressure
around her heart seemed to be incIOsed.
She awakened her husband, light was
struck. she thought she was dying. In
about an hour. when the clock struck.
it was discovered that the striking of
the clock had been mistaken for the